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Mon 05 May 2009Privacy Bill does not pose threat to good journalism, says Minister
BAR COUNCIL CONFERENCE:THE PRIVACY Bill, before the Seanad since 2006, does not pose a threat to good journalism that rightly seeks to hold Government, business and other organisations to account, according to Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern.
Mr Ahern was speaking at a Bar Council conference on privacy at the weekend, and he also said he expects to see the Defamation Bill, currently before the Dáil, to be enacted by the summer.
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